Bio: Dustin Pickering is founder of Transcendent Zero Press and founding
editor of Harbinger Asylum. He has contributed writing
to Huffington Post, Caf├й Dissensus Everyday, The
Statesman (India), Journal of Liberty and International
Affairs, The Colorado Review, World Literature Today,
and several other publications. He is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee.
He placed in the top 100 out of 12,500 entries for the erbacce prize in 2021,
and was a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short fiction contest.
He was also honored by the Friends of Guido Gozzano. He hosts the popular
interview series World Inkers Network on Youtube.
Prayer of the Calling
Sweetness of voices calling the ineffable from wastelands of
sorrow, do you know me? Am I worthy of the parting sea? Will love vanquish my
heart in terrors of dream? Beauty is my bowstring from which great renditions
run slight, carrying waters of soul, dreams of color immersed in floods of
salvation. And do I cry at seeking you, o Lord?
***
Spring Rains
Spring
rains will never come.
Tranquility
of heart will never come.
My
love has sought another,
another
for his comforts.
My
joy is vanquished!
Love,
once fertile, now is memory:
dead
on the vines, the grapes
wither
and fall to the earth.
Spring
rains will not come!
***
My Dear Dying Love
Perfection
dreams of the imperfect
so
the art of correction may usurp
the
needless flaw.
And
you are the shining grifter of my life,
such
autonomous suicide,
a
glad peasant offering reconciliation.
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